Note 16 — THE CASTLE OF CHEPSTOW, Monmouthshire.

Of the Tynte family, Burke gives the following account:—

“The family of Tynte has maintained for centuries a leading position in the west of England; of its surname, tradition has handed down the following derivation:—‘In the year 1192, at the celebrated battle of Ascalon, a young knight of the noble house of Arundel, clad all in white, with his horse’s housings of the same colour, so gallantly distinguished himself on that memorable field, that Richard Cœur-de-Lion remarked publicly, after the victory, that the maiden knight had borne himself as a lion, and done deeds equal to those of six crusaders; whereupon he conferred on him for arms, a lion gules on a field argent, between six crosslets of the first, and for motto, Tynctus cruore Saraceno.’”—Commoners.